Boards

If my emotional response to a novel was pinned to a diagram of a fried egg, where the centre of the yolk invokes the most emotional response and the periphery of the albumen invokes the least emotional response, it'd be stuck halfway between the periphery of the albumen and the periphery of the yolk.

A good film can be really yolky. Am I doing it wrong? Or are books always like that? I didn't read at all during high school. Got given a Kindle as a birthday present last year so I've been reading all the classics. Maybe I just need to learn how to read again.

Books take longer to read and engage with you differently. I certainly have read books that have left me fairly affected emotionally but more often the feeling of enjoyment from a book is about the bit when you're reading rather than the denouement. With films it is often about building to an ending, about packing emotional punches in that point.

That said, if you've been sticking to The Classics then they're definitely less likely (in my view) to get you right in the 'yolk'. If you like that sort of thing, have a read of 'The Art of Fielding'.

and things that are factual rather than emotional whilst I only watch TV and Film for entertainment and avoid almost all documentaries or serious programmes or films. I'm perfectly happy with this arrangement.